Nutmeg Grille Announces February Specials
The Nutmeg Grille is offering the following specials during February:

• Come to lunch before 11:45 a.m. and receive a free beverage;
  
  
• Bring eight people or more and receive a complimentary entree, beverage and dessert;
  
  
• Bring three friends to lunch and one entree will be complimentary.
  
  

If using one of these specials, please tell your server when ordering. One special per visit, please.

Exchange Program Growing with Universities Nationwide
The University expects 25 to 35 students to participate next year in UConn's National Student Exchange Program, which allows students to study at other American universities while still paying in-state tuition.

Joshua Ruminski, National Student Exchange coordinator at UConn, says that number would double or triple the dozen students who are participating this year. About 140 students have so far expressed interest in the program, which has an application deadline of Feb. 14. Now in its third year, the program has grown each year, he says.

Until now the program has been operated through the Division of Extended and Continuing Education. It is being moved to the Study Abroad program, however. The transition is expected to be complete by Aug. 1.

The UConn schools and colleges that participate in the student exchange include liberal arts, family studies and agriculture. An increasing number of students are interested in business programs.

"The most popular destinations are universities in warm-weather places like Southern California, Arizona, and Florida as well as Hawaii and Puerto Rico," Ruminski says. UConn also is becoming a popular exchange school for students from elsewhere. There were four students who came to Storrs in the first year, 20 this year, and Ruminski expects 35 to 40 students to come here next year.

Arrangements to place students at other universities are made at the annual National Student Exchange conference, which will be held in mid-March in

Ken Ross